Ánima Negra, Án, D.O. Mallorca, red wine, 0.75l

This deep garnet-coloured red wine with ruby hues offers a wonderfully rich and layered aroma of plums, blackberries, leather, violets, smoke and Mediterranean  spice. On the palate it is fantastically full-bodied with a delicious finish. The wine aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. It is best suited to special occasions, slow-cooked dishes, BBQ and smoked ribs. Serve at a temperature between 14 °C and 16 °C. Grape variety: Callet The Ànima Negra winery from Mallorca was founded by three friends, Francesc Grimalt, Pere Obrador and Miguel Ángel Cerdà. They decided to make authentic wines from Mallorca based on indigenous varieties. Near the small town of Felanitx, they converted a former dairy into what is today one of the best-known wine cellars in the Balearic Islands. In the first year they produced just two barrique barrels of the local Callet variety. The next two years effectively served them as a study project - they were trying to make an ideally well-structured wine from this typical Mallorcan variety. At that time, most wines from Mallorca were simple and did not go through any sophisticated ageing process. Their vineyards in the Son Negre area of Mallorca are characterised by a very windy environment (sea air), low yields (less than half a kilogram of grapes per vine) and an extreme terroir: very poor soil, significant minerality, limited water reserves in the soil, and many other fruit trees in the vineyard. The specific conditions in this vineyard force the winemakers to work with old vines, which have deep roots to find the nutrients they need. This means the winery's production is very small yet complex. Country of origin: Spain, Mallorca